Darwin was born in Shrewsbury on 12 February 1809. In 1827 he started theology studies at Christ's College, Cambridge. His love to collect plants, insects, and geological specimens was noted by his botany professor John Stevens Hens low. He arranged for his talented student a place a on the surveying expedition of HMS Beagle to Patagonia. Despite the objections of his father, Darwin decided to leave his familiar surroundings. The voyage took five years from 1831 to 1836. Darwin returned with obs...

The Praying Mantis (Mantis Religiosa) Contents Introduction Classes First Things First Key Features Basic Features Diet &Combat Style Reproduction Growth & Development Self-Defense Cultural Significance Praying Mantis Kung-Fu INTRODUCTION 'Praying Mantis' is the name commonly used in English speaking countries to refer to a large, much elongated, slow-moving insect with fore legs fitted for seizing and holding insect prey. The name, 'Praying Mantis' more properly refers to the specific Mantid sp...

Charles Robert Darwin, the grandson of the British scientist Erasmus Darwin, studied medicine at the Edinburgh University and prepared for the ministry at Cambridge. Following his abiding concentration in natural history, however, he became a naturalist and sailed in this capability on the H.M.S. Beagle from 1831 to 1838. The Beagle's voyage took Darwin to various Southern Pacific islands and to the coasts of Australia and South America. When he Returned to England, Darwin became the secretary o...

From his theories that he claimed were developed during his voyage, Darwin eventually wrote his Origin of Species and Descent of Man, which exploded into the world market over twenty years after his return home. Wallace, King and Sanders wrote in Biosphere, The Realm of Life: "In 1859, Charles Darwin published a theory of evolution that implied that humans evolved from apes... The Darwinian revolution was the greatest paradigm shift in the history of biology, and it greatly changed the way that ...

Most people think the theory of evolution was first proposed by Charles Darwin, and rests on scientific evidence, observations and experiments. However, in the same way that Darwin was not its originator neither does the theory rest on scientific proof. The theory consists of an adaptation to nature of an ancient dogma called materialist philosophy. Although it is backed up by no scientific evidence, the theory is blindly supported in the name of materialist philosophy. This fanaticism has resul...

Biology came of age on November 24, 1859, the day Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. His book presented the first convincing case for evolution and led the way in the emergence of biology from a bewildering chaos of facts into a cohesive science. In biology, evolution refers to all the changes that have transformed life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to the seemingly infinite diversity that characterizes it today. Darwin addressed the sweeping...